Atheer Adel as Numan and Claire Danes as Carrie Mathison in "Homeland."

In case we needed further proof that Allison Carr is this season's villain, the episode starts with Berlin's chief of station sneaking into an apartment to meet up with Russian intelligence agent Ivan Kruptin.

Saul's actions have Allison (Miranda Otto) thinking Carrie (Claire Danes) might not be dead after all. And she's desperately trying to figure out if the thumb drive containing 1,361 CIA files and enough proof to land her in prison fell into Carrie's hands.

"There's only one person Saul would go so far out on a limb for," she tells Kruptin.

Kruptin (Mark Ivanir) tells the frazzled double agent to get it together and find out who has the drive. Which involves getting Saul out of the station, where Dar Adal (F. Murray Abraham) has him on lockdown.

"You've played these men for years," Kruptin tells her. "They trust you."

Apparently, playing the CIA honcho isn't that hard. With just a short conversation, Allison convinces Dar to let her take Saul back to his apartment and interrogate him.

Carrie finally gets in touch with her former asset over the phone who says the CIA never let him know she had quit, and an Iraqi lawyer and intelligence peddler everyone thought dead was actually alive and well.

What could he possibly know?

With the help of Numan (Atheer Adel) — who shows up at During's along with journalist Laura Sutton (Sarah Sokolovic) — Carrie finds out the Iraqi lawyer's wife lives in Amsterdam and decides to pay her a visit in hopes of finding the woman's husband.

Hey, remember Quinn's storyline? He seems to have recovered and somehow persuaded his new terrorist buddies to fight the good fight in Syria instead of Berlin.

Convinced that Quinn (Rupert Friend) is a mercenary, Bibi (Rene Ifrah) asks him to be their escort for a pretty $10,000 a week. Conveniently, Bibi's uncle is a wanted deputy emir back in Syria. So, after casually filling Dar in, Quinn agrees to the journey.

Back in Saul's apartment, Allison gets him to spill the beans and pretty much has a mini-breakdown (in private, of course) when he confirms Carrie has the incriminating CIA files.

Allison runs back to Kruptin who promises he'll get to Amsterdam before Carrie and destroy all the evidence — reminding Allison she must continue to play it cool with the CIA.

Rupert Friend as Peter Quinn (c.) and Rene Ifrah as Bibi in "Homeland."